HPG

Kurdistan People's Defence Forces

TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC

1- On 13 April in between 03:00-04:00 hours, the occupier forces of the Turkish state army carried out obus and mortar attacks on the area and the Hill of Mam Reso; the Villages of Kiye and Sive; the Valleys of Avasin and Basya/Zagros/the Medya Defence Areas.

2- On 13 April in between 04:00-05:00 hours, the occupier forces of the Turkish state army carried out obus and mortar attacks on the areas of Sikefta Birindara and Karker/Zap/the Medya Defence Areas.

3- On 13 April in between 00:00-04:00 hours, the occupier forces of the Turkish state army carried out obus and mortar attacks on the areas of Geliye Res; the Villages of Kevzava and Ermus; the Hill of Siro; and Sehitlik zone/Xakurke/the Medya Defence Areas.

4- The occupier forces of the Turkish state army carried out obus and mortar attacks on the Villages of the Hilale, Cennete and Erbis; the Hills of Sehit Baran and Sehit Colemerg; and, the Castle of Ertus/Zap/the Medya Defence Areas, from 12 April at 13:00 hour to the afternoon hours of 13 April.

5- On 12 April in between 23:00-24:00 hours, the occupier forces of the Turkish state army carried out obus and mortar attacks on the Village of Kiye; the area of Mam Reso; the Hill of Kartal; and the Strait of Lanet/Zagros/the Medya Defence Areas.

6- On 12 April at 07:00 hour, our guerrillas carried an action against a unit of soldiers made up 20 soldiers from the border military station of Sinek/Uluder/Sirnak, where unit of enemy just began a operation. As a result of this action, 7 soldiers killed and 3 others wounded by our guerrillas. Also, 1 HK-33 type weapon belongs to the soldiers has been confiscated by our guerrillas.

Aftermath of the action, the cobra type helicopters belongs to the enemy attempted to intervene to the area of action, yet they had to retreded due to the guerrillas' defence by heavy weaponary.

7- On 12 April in afternoon hours, the occupier force of the Turkish state army brought reinforcement of soldiers and ammunition with a military convoy made up 20 vehicles to the Rubarok Military Station/Semdinli/Hakkari.

HPG Media and Communication Center

13.04.2012